Woolley & Wallis sold the first tranche of the private collection and stock of silver specialist Michael Baggott (1973-2025) on July 16. All but one of the 152 lots were sold with a hammer total of ...

Book dealership Sotheran’s is the latest victim of cyber criminals. The website of the rare books and prints firm was fraudulently cloned in Singapore using a variation… ...

A group of prints tucked away in the basement of Kent County Council’s County Hall have sold at a Sworders auction. Comprising approximately 350 lithographs, linocuts, screenprints, woodcuts, etchings ...

Whitefriars Glass Britain’s longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, was purchased by James Powell for his three sons in 1834. It subsequently led fashion and technology in ...

Chess Sets The variety and styles of chess pieces made over the years offers huge scope for the keen international audience of collectors that operate in this area.

Scottish Provincial Silver Despite laws instructing goldsmiths to send their wares to Edinburgh (and later Glasgow) for hallmarking, many silversmiths from the burghs of Scotland enjoyed sufficient ...

Windsor Chairs The Windsor chair is recognised as one of the classics of English country furniture. They were often made by village craftsmen to traditional designs in native woods like elm, ash, ...

List of major fair dates for 2025 As 2025 gets underway, most of the world's largest art and antiques fairs have already announced their dates for this year.

Christie’s reports flat first half auction sales for 2025. Auction house Christie’s reported auction sales of $2.1bn (£1.6bn) in the first half of 2025, a level on a par with ...

LAPADA dealers will not take part in this summer’s 'The Game Fair'. Art and antiques dealers had been part of the event since 2021. At this summer’s fair, running from ...

Sotheby’s has launched a new series of podcasts titled ‘The Specialist’ in which the auction house’s experts give a behind-the-scenes look at the auction world. Each 10-minute episode focuses on a ...

Yorkshire museum needs the final £600,000 by August 27 to save a Barbara Hepworth sculpture The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund teamed up to launch the public appeal to save a £3.8m Dame Barba… ...